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Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:46:46 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: System Calls
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On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 06:23:30PM -0400, Murdoch, Matthew wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I am fairly new to cygwin I have a fairly trivial question.  I am trying to
> make a system call using the system function in C.   I have read some of the
> previous postings on the newsgroup, but I am still stuck.   I am trying to
> do the following command, which calls an executable file and supplies it
> with an input file.  It then pipes the output to an otuput file.   
> 
> system("cmd /c c:\"users\"mmurdoch\"ACE\"sixs <
> c:\"users\"mmurdoch\"ACE\"sixSIn.txt
>          > c:\"users\"mmurdoch\"ACE\"sixSOut.txt");
> 
> I do have the "sh.exe" file in my \bin directory.    
> 
> Thanks in advance for the help

What exact error do you see?  "I have a problem" isn't helpful
at all.

What are these \" ?  Don't you mean \\ ?
Why are you running cmd to call the application?  Why not call it
directly:

  system ("/cygdrive/c/users/mmurdoch/ACE/sixs \
           < /cygdrive/c/users/mmurdoch/ACE/sixSIn.txt \
	   > /cygdrive/c/users/mmurdoch/ACE/sixSOut.txt")

?

Or write a shell script and call that?

Corinna

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